but I wonder if that assumption is actually part of the bigger issue.

it always was, is and may always be...

i've never been in it for the 'money', which made me an outsider. most folks with different point of views in real life and only 'looking' for the social part (or else), are not really suitable for hive and will be bullied out in time, somehow!

i came here because i was looking for a way to learn to write what i was experiencing, leaving imposed obligations of society behind me. One point i was never really accepted on steem and later on hive, because i do not what this blockchain does impose onto all, to be 'accepted/respected' as a good hiver.

when i started to give away my 'earnings' to sponsor humans in need, it even started becoming worse. One reason i find stuff like the KE index ridiculous and actually hurting the chain.

But no, it's that bad that if you do something that counts as 'not accepted' as 'written' in the rules of hive, the (also) imposed guardians and self-proclaimed kings are activating their brainwashed lackeys to get rid of you. And i'm not talking about the spammers, abusers (or worse) of this systems. It just needs to be another (for some, unacceptable) point of view, even when expressed in a world that cries for free speech, while actually killing it.

all this works much to good. so many really good hearten humans left this 'building', and i can really understand why. If you're not strong enough to be one of the folks not in it for the money, you'll will leave this chain behind. Sad, so much potential lost...

Personally, my only concern is, that when the price will be zero, there will be no more folks left to keep the blockchain alive. Like in real life... folks tend to leave a project, if it's not bringing in some good money.

Just doing their best for the 'people' to actually make a change with a tool that really could do it is not enough in most capitalistic brainwashed brains, if they even have one.